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Velká cena města Pardubic – XXVIIth renewal– First qualification race for the 129th running of the Velka Pardubicka Steeplechase
Steeplechase crosscountry, Category: National Listed, 5800 metres, CZK 400 000
going: 3.3 (good)
The field for Saturday’s VP qualification race at Pardubice can boast not only the winner of the 2018 Velka, but also a horse that won the Velka without finishing the race in first place. In the Lokotrans colours, 11-y-o Ribelino will be running at Pardubice for the second time this year. However, his previous run did not leave his trainer, Luboš Urbánek (photo), any the wiser!
The 27th running of the Town of Pardubice Grand Prix, supported by the Pardubice Public Transport Company, is the main race on Saturday, May 25th. This is the first of the four Velka Pardubicka qualification races to be run at Pardubice racecourse, in May, June, August and September.
The 81 entries for this year’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp include 5-y-o Nagano Gold, owned by V3J and trained at Bošovice by Václav Luka (photo). British-bred Nagano Gold, by Sixties Icon (GB), out of Never Enough (GB) (Monsun (GER)), has a decent record.
The 2019 steeplechasing season has got off to a slow start, as usual, and in the middle of May only three Category I races have been run. The Town of Lysá-nad-Labem First of May Steeplechase, 4 200 metres, at Lysá, was for the sixth successive year trained by Josef Váňa senior and ridden by Jan Kratochvíl (photo). Power Zar had won the September 2017 VP qualification race.
When the CPI Property Group took over the Prague Velká Chuchle racecourse area, it was announced that a wider range of equestrian events would be held at the racecourse. Above all, showjumping was to be reintroduced to the racecourse. The first showjumping event on the new arena at the racecourse will be held on May 3rd, 4th and 5th. The racecourse will be open from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. on each day, with events at different levels.
Since we have - or used to have - a fairly hard and long winter in the Czech Republic, and we do not have any racing on all-weather tracks, our horseracing season does not begin until April, and it ends early in November. Owners and racing fans can deal with the situation quite well by having other interests in their lives for the winter months, but the long off-season is a problem for our professional trainers and riders.
Eliška Kubinová has vivid memories of her first race, in October 2005. She rode Far Beck at Prague Velká Chuchle, and she finished dead last. “That was just awful, and I never want to ride in a race again.” That’s how she felt about it.
